5SFE All-Motor Anyone?, Who has built it better... Options

[celicazero]

Just moved from IL to CA. To make a long story short ran into engine trouble so I pulled it. Its out and I want to know if anyone has gone all motor with this engine sucessfully. I checked with the local smogman and basically I cant legally do a 3sgte swap. Is there anyway to make the engine better in its current state? Also local engine builder not speaking highly about working on. Are custom titanium rods worth it?

[celicasupra209]

too bad you have a 97 if it was like 94-96 you can actually do a 3sgte engine swap as long as its not a jdm motor! i research this for like months ca rules are

1) newer motor (1 year diffrence you can get slide on)
2) engine must be coming from a car with simlar weight (3sgte or 3sge)
3) either us model or jdm replacement for same motor .. (only can do a jdm swap with a jdm 5sfe if your going jdm)
4) has to pass the sniffer it should if you register it as a mr2 motor

but man its hard finding a 3sgte us motor with low milleage that be less then 3000.00 dollar..